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Slow Cooker Glazed Carrots have the perfect amount of sweet and flavor with the cinnamon honey glaze.

What You’ll Love About This Recipe
This recipe is delicious enough to serve as part of your holiday meal. We often have them at Thanksgiving. But easy enough to make part of any weeknight dinner. They are sweet, falvorful, and perfectly tender. Even your pickiest eater will love them.
Ingredients
- Carrots, baby carrots or regular carrots peeled and chopped
- Brown Sugar
- Honey
- Orange juice
- Butter, melted
- Ground Cinnamon
- Fresh Parsley, chopped for garnish
How To Make Slow Cooker Carrots
- Place carrots in 3-4 quart slow cooker and spray with cooking spray.
- Combine sugar, honey, juice, butter and cinnamon in a large bowl.
- Pour mixture over carrots and stir to coat.
- Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours or until the carrots are fork tender. Stir occassionally and check tenderness as they cook.
- Strain juice from carrots and place in a pan on the stove and bring to a boil. Boil until mixture reduces down to about half.
- Pour reduced sauce back over carrots.
- Garnish with fresh parsley and serve.
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Slow Cooker Glazed Carrots
Tender carrots cooked in your crock pot with a delicious cinnamon and honey glaze.
Prep:5 minutes
Cook:3 hours
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Total:3 hours 5 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 lbs. baby carrots
- 3/4 C packed brown sugar
- 1/4 C honey
- 1/2 C orange juice
- 1/4 C butter melted
- 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- Chopped fresh parsley for garnish.
Instructions
- Place carrots in 3-4 quart slow cooker and spray with cooking spray.
- In a large bowl combine sugar, honey, juice, butter and cinnamon.
- Pour mixture over carrots and stir to coat.
- Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours or until the carrots are fork tender. Stir occassionally and check tenderness as they cook.
- Strain juice from carrots and place in a pan on the stove and bring to a boil. Boil until mixture reduces down to about half.
- Pour back over carrots.
- Garnish with fresh parsley and serve.
Nutrition Facts:
Calories: 139kcal (7%) Carbohydrates: 27g (9%) Protein: 1g (2%) Fat: 4g (6%) Saturated Fat: 2g (13%) Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g Monounsaturated Fat: 1g Trans Fat: 1g Cholesterol: 10mg (3%) Sodium: 97mg (4%) Potassium: 223mg (6%) Fiber: 2g (8%) Sugar: 24g (27%) Vitamin A: 10564IU (211%) Vitamin C: 7mg (8%) Calcium: 40mg (4%) Iron: 1mg (6%)
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Erin @ Simple, Sweet & Savory says
I LOVE glazed carrots. They’re the perfect fancy side dish for pretty much any occasion! I love the idea of making them in the slow cooker on Thanksgiving to save on time and counter space. Pinning!
Abby says
WOW.. I’ve been thinking about glazed carrots for Thanksgiving… this sounds so yummy !